float does not parse '0.000000E+00'

[Darrell Gallion]

Paolo Redaelli wrote:
> but if I run a program that does x=float(x) where x = "0.000000E+00 "
> (being a string) here's the output. 
> 
> ===========================
> [paolo at aldebaran Telaio]$ ./pyplot.py
> x(<type 'string'>)='0.000000E+00' y(<type 'string'>)='0.000000E+00'
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "./pyplot.py", line 198, in ?
>     t = Telaio()
>   File "./pyplot.py", line 172, in __init__
>     x = float(x)
> ===========================

Pasted this into a .py file and it worked fine.

a = "0.000000E+00"
print float(a)


--Darrell Gallion